[72812] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ad.doubleclick.net missing from DNS?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Stuart)
Tue Jul 27 13:22:24 2004
To: "Ricardo \"Rick\" Gonzalez" <rico.gonzalez@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:59:00 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:21:24 -0700
From: Stephen Stuart <stuart@tech.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Adding an entry in LMHOSTS or /etc/hosts pointing ad.doubleclick.net
> to 127.0.0.1 is generally a good idea, especially if you value your
> privacy.
Better still, run an http listener on (for example) 127.0.0.2 port 80,
using the appropriate /etc/hosts glue to map whatever hostnames you
like to that address, and answer requests with null content; the
remainder of the page will complete faster as a result. For extra
credit, log the requests so you can browse the Host:/Referer:
combinations.
Stephen
